duteous

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Exception 3.—Final y is sometimes changed into e: as, duty + ous = duteous; beauty + ous = beauteous.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Since you have swore not to save him upon Other Terms, I'll shew a duteous Cruelty And rather follow him in Death than so To buy his Life, no, I despise the Price.

From The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted by Centlivre, Susanna

"Mustn't rush things," he'd told himself, as if those three days had been three years' duteous service of a knight of old.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta

Her maids around her moved, a duteous band!

From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William

All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage: when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward